Superman is not about being a god, nor is he about being perceived as one. When Jerry Siegel told the first Superman stories in the Golden Age of comics, he wasn’t a “sun-god” who walked the surface of the sun; on earth to teach humanity the path of righteousness to a supreme light. When Superman was first created and infected into pulp culture, he was about being a personification of what it means to be good in essence, whether a male or female; it was not his power that defined him, it was his emotional tie to humanity. When delving deeper into Superman’s mindset of what it means to be human, the character is about an individual feeling love for humanity even when feeling alone and different in society, but because of the values he was raised on as a child and the dreams he has, and the love he has been given as a child from his adoptive parents, he aspires to be more than what society intended him to be. Being alien isn’t what defines Superman, being human is. For Clark Kent’s whole childhood, he has been seeking his world. When he came to earth, he was found in the cornfield of Jonathan and Martha Kent’s farm. They took him in, seeing that he was a mere baby boy, crying. When Martha took him into her arms, she saw the red blanket that was wrapped around …show more content…
But all that changes when he meets Lois Lane, who is the first person to truly understand him even if her childhood or upbringing and pain wasn’t the same as his. She understands him truly for the first time and he understands why he must be Superman, because he must protect his world and she is his
...and has to fight down his emotions, so we can relate to him. Ultimately, though, he keeps his self-control and wins out in the end, making him a true hero and a fine character.
With regards to Superman himself, in his interview with Lois, Superman’s voice can be heard more clearly and is louder than Lois’s voice. This places him in a position of power and authority over Lois. Superman is often flying or hovering when he is seen by Lois Lane and Miss Teschmacher thus the camera is forced to be at a low angle to him. This, once again, places Superman in a position of power. This can also be seen in “Man of Steel”.
Is this film about Superman or about a mysterious bearded man who protects people once in every decade of his lifetime? One problem that the film has lies within the first hour of the movie - in which the film, having up to that point not yet really established Superman as a hero. Opposed to the original Superman in which Superman would be fully developed within the first scene of the movie. In addition to his powers being fully developed, Superman would have already established his arch nemesis as well. This course of action took way to long, and while understanding that the director wanted a firm background of Clark Kent as well as Kal-El this action could have been more upfront. In Man of Steel Clark Kent should have transformed into Superman and shown the world who he really is and...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! In 1938, Action Comics #1, released the first Superman comic to the public. Superman, also known as Kal El, has shown many different powers since his first debut in 1938. This paper will discuss various topics about four of his major powers and explain why they are all impossible for anyone to achieve in real life. Superman’s four major powers that will be discussed in this paper are X-ray vision, being able to fly, super strength, and invulnerability.
“I am breaking down the door.” Superman is breaking down a door to catch a villain. In the essay “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, there is an extended metaphor. Sherman Alexie has a connection with the fictional character, Superman. Indians were expected to fail. Superman was expected to please people.
The thing about the character is that he is a man who is also super and has these powers. As someone who is not of this earth, Kal-El has to try and fit in as a human. The beginning of the film shows the intergalactic backstory of Kal-El’s birth on the doomed and imploding planet of Krypton. Kal is born with the last name of El, which in Hebrew means God. His father, Jor-El, opposes the beliefs and tyranny of General Zod. Going against the planet’s genetics program, he and his wife, Lara, have Kal-El naturally and, to save the newborn, they send him to Earth. Lara worries that her son will be “an outcast, a freak,” but Jor-El says that “he’ll be a god to them.” When you put the origin into biblical terms, you can pick some things out that are in the Bible. For instance, you can see that General Zod is the equivalent to King Herod. He w...
During the fight that takes place in Small Ville Superman gets shot in the chest. This blast does not kill him, and he shows no sign of pain. This depiction of masculinity promotes the popular belief that superheroes are indestructible and instills in young children that even when experiencing agonizing pain heroes suck it up and keep fighting.
The pressures of society and many factors against us can at times seem impossible to overcome, however, these limitations are only the ones we place on ourselves. Whether it’s during the adolescent years as Sherman Alexie explained in “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”, about the struggles of overcoming the stigma bound by his culture where “A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike”, as well as having the courage to break free for his own benefit. In addition, this theme was also explored in the later years of adulthood as demonstrated in Malcolm X’s essay, “Learning to Read” where he’d become so frustrated while kept in prison, unable to quite express himself as he did
On one end of the spectrum lays Superman, an alien who from birth is comparable to god, and on the opposite side lays Lex Luthor, a genius human who comes from nothing and created a financial empire. Superman
Firstly, Superman is an alien, to the United States and to the world. But is he really that different from you and me? We are all descended from people who were immigrants to America. Engle writes: “All Americans have immediate sense of their origins elsewhere” (Engle, 678). So doesn’t it make sense that everyone that fights or works for our natural freedoms are aliens, the soldiers, the doctors, the teachers, and Superman himself? “Like the peoples of the nation whose values he defends, Superman is an alien” (Engle, 678). Like all aliens the reason for coming to this country is to make something better of ones self. Where one may run any kind of business they please and not worry about someone else intervening because they simply can. Superman ...
And that's why he'd let Batman get a hold of some kryptonite, and why Superman won't dodge it as it's plunged into his chest.
... an impact on people all throughout America. From having 130,000 people visit the Superman panel at comic-con to having an original Action Comic Book being sold at more than $2,000,000. Superman is known for wearing his blue suit with a red and yellow ‘S’ but many artists have their own color tones and facial and body features.
Society favors the outlaw hero because we relate with that character more. We see ourselves more so in the outlaw hero than in the official hero. The outlaw hero has the child like talents that most of us wish we had as adults. To civilians it may seem that the outlaw hero lives more of a fantasy life that we all wish to have. Superman’s image has remained unchanged over the years. A blue suit accompanied by boots, a belt and cape have always been the Superman style, along with the Superman emblem on his chest. Superman’s real name is Kal-El, a descendant of the Kryptonian family of the house of El, with his father known as Jor-El and mother Lara. Krypton was discovered to be in the last seconds of life due to the coming supernova of its sun by Kal-El’s father. The other members of Krypton did not believe Jor-El could not tell others of his answers and examinations. Jor-El promised that neither he nor his wife would leave and with every last possible choice eliminated, Jor-El would send his newborn son to the planet Earth. Kal-El then crash landed into the care of Jonathan and Martha Kent, two farmers in Kansas. He then adopted the Kent family name,...
...chokes her father telling him to say where the discs are. Her father tells Clark that he can kill him if he wants, but is never going to tell him. Normal Clark would never get overly aggressive with someone for a million dollar reward. However this new Clark made it obvious that all he seem to care about is money.
Another thing I want to bring into focus is the title of this documentary, which in a certain light is cynical. At the beginning Geoffrey mentions that the saddest day of his life was in 4th grade when his mother told him that superman didn’t exist. He cried because he realized that there was no one that could save us from the poverty we had all been born into. We all wait for superman because it seems that a task this great cannot be achieved by the likes of